{"id":770,"date":"2005-01-18T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2005-01-18T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=770"},"modified":"2005-01-18T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2005-01-18T17:26:11","slug":"on-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/01\/18\/on-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"on meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I saw this headline on the front page yesterday’s late edition of the Oregonian<\/a>, sitting there in the box.<\/p>\n

With my usual craned neck, my reaction was a “Um… Yeah… and?” Through the past — nearly two years now — I’ve pondered that meme, and what can be done to destroy it. Unfortunately, there is no destroying a meme. Memes are insiduous, and become facts to the minds of those who have said meme lodged in their brain. (It’s difficult to shake the cobwebs and dislodge a number from my own brain.)<\/p>\n

I can’t remember who it was, but a few weeks ago a Big Named National Right-wing commentator asks the question — to me I guess, “And will you be able to admit your mistake when it turns out that the Weapons of Mass Destruction were moved to Syria?” The answer, my friend, is a simple: “Uh… WTF?”<\/i><\/p>\n

What the world needs now is another newsmax.com and “DEBKA Files” Report about Iraq’s neighbors harboring Saddam’s stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction…<\/p>\n

A new one– or rehashed from through some “back-up” “information”– that’s haunting us, this one seemingly backed up by some government spokesperson into the mainstream media — a report and study shows that the Insurgency is, indeed, still Saddam Loyalists<\/i>… a concept that doesn’t… make… any… logical… sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw this headline on the front page yesterday’s late edition of the Oregonian, sitting there in the box. With my usual craned neck, my reaction was a “Um… Yeah… and?” Through the past — nearly two years now — I’ve pondered that meme, and what can be done to destroy it. Unfortunately, there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}